Photon vs React Native Desktop

Overview

Photon

Stacks32

Followers89

Votes0

GitHub Stars10.1K

Forks573

React Native Desktop

Stacks15

Followers203

Votes11

Photon vs React Native Desktop: What are the differences?

Photon: Framework for Electron apps. The fastest way to build beautiful Electron apps using simple HTML and CSS. Underneath it all is Electron. Originally built for GitHub's Atom text editor, Electron is the easiest way to build cross-platform desktop applications; React Native Desktop: React Native for OS X. Build OS X desktop apps using React Native.

Photon and React Native Desktop can be categorized as "Cross-Platform Desktop Development" tools.

Photon and React Native Desktop are both open source tools. React Native Desktop with 11.2K GitHub stars and 478 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Photon with 9.04K GitHub stars and 519 GitHub forks.

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Advice on Photon, React Native Desktop

Semih

Software Engineering Manager

Oct 1, 2020

Needs adviceon

JavaScript

HTML5

.NET

Hi,

We are planning to develop a brand new UX for an already existing desktop software. The previous version is developed on C#.NET with Winforms & WPF. Our plan is to use JavaScript/HTML5 based frontend technologies for the new software. For some components, we are highly dependent on .NET/ .NET Core because the JS-based versions are not mature enough.

What would you choose for a desktop-based Engineering Software that supports multi-OS and has rich UI capabilities considering the .NET dependencies?

Thanks in advance,

Semih

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Detailed Comparison

Photon	React Native Desktop
The fastest way to build beautiful Electron apps using simple HTML and CSS. Underneath it all is Electron. Originally built for GitHub's Atom text editor, Electron is the easiest way to build cross-platform desktop applications.	Build OS X desktop apps using React Native.
Statistics
GitHub Stars 10.1K	GitHub Stars -
GitHub Forks 573	GitHub Forks -
Stacks 32	Stacks 15
Followers 89	Followers 203
Votes 0	Votes 11
Pros & Cons
No community feedback yet	Pros 3 Pretty awesome 2 Is native app 2 Memory usage reduced 2 Does not include any browser 1 Open source Cons 0 Memory usage reduced
Integrations
Electron	React Native

What are some alternatives to Photon, React Native Desktop?

Electron

With Electron, creating a desktop application for your company or idea is easy. Initially developed for GitHub's Atom editor, Electron has since been used to create applications by companies like Microsoft, Facebook, Slack, and Docker. The Electron framework lets you write cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. It is based on io.js and Chromium and is used in the Atom editor.

Sciter

It brings a stack of web technologies to desktop UI development. Web designers, and developers, can reuse their experience and expertise in creating modern looking desktop applications.

wxWidgets

It is a C++ library that lets developers create applications for Windows, macOS, Linux and other platforms with a single code base. It has popular language bindings for Python, Perl, Ruby and many other languages, and unlike other cross-platform toolkits, it gives applications a truly native look and feel because it uses the platform's native API rather than emulating the GUI. It's also extensive, free, open-source and mature.

Qt5

It is a full development framework with tools designed to streamline the creation of applications and user interfaces for desktop, embedded, and mobile platforms.

JavaFX

It is a set of graphics and media packages that enables developers to design, create, test, debug, and deploy rich client applications that operate consistently across diverse platforms.

JUCE

It is a C++ framework for low-latency applications, with cross-platform GUI libraries to get your apps running on Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, iOS and Android.

Proton Native

Create native desktop applications through a React syntax, on all platforms.

NodeGUI

It is an open source library for building cross-platform native desktop applications with JavaScript and CSS like styling. It is based on Qt5 and NOT chromium, hence it is memory and cpu efficient.

pygame

It is a cross-platform set of Python modules designed for writing video games. It includes computer graphics and sound libraries designed to be used with the Python programming language.

SDL

It is a cross-platform development library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, and graphics hardware via OpenGL and Direct3D.